Market
News:Spain's leading broadcaster Telecinco announced it would gain a
foothold in the U.S. TV market by taking a small stake in a new
Spanish-language channel.CaribeVision is a
new channel operating in New York, Miami and Puerto
Rico on WJPX-TV 24, which will
broadcast to Spanish speakers on the
eastern coast of
the United States. The Spanish firm, majority owned by
Italy's Mediaset, is a
founding investor in CaribeVision and has agreed to
buy a 28.3 percent stake in CaribeVision
for $32 million... The Fox
network has officially arrived in Puerto Rico thanks to the LKK Group's WSJX-TV, known on-air as "Fox Puerto Rico."
In a bit of a complicated signal issue. WSJX is a Low-Power TV station
broadcasting on Channel 24 from Aguadilla, and shares the same dial
position with San Juan's WJPX-TV.
So, the Fox affiliate is
distributed on DirectTV and on
Dish Network as
part of the Puerto Rico locals package, as well as One Link Cable, Choice Cable and Liberty Cablevision
throughout the island. Sister stations include WPRU-LP (ABC) channel 20, and WSJP-LP (The CW) channel 30.

U.S.
Territories:The term "United States"
when used in a
geographical sense on official
documents, acts and/or laws; includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
the
Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.

The U.S. has twelve unincorporated territories, also known as
possessions, and two commonwealths. The major possessions are American
Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. All of these
have a
non-voting
representative in the U.S. Congress. The major commonwealths are Puerto
Rico and the Northern Marianas.
Commonwealths have their own
constitutions
and greater autonomy than possessions, and Guam is currently in the
process of moving from the status of unincorporated territory to
commonwealth. The residents of all of these places are full U.S.
citizens,
with the exception of those on American Samoa who are U.S. nationals,
but
not citizens.

Media in the 3 largest territories -
Puerto Rico, Guam,
and U.S. Virgin Islands is very similar to the U.S. mainland. The
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses all radio, and
television properties. All major U.S. broadcast and cable networks have
distribution, and affiliates in these areas as well.